A Comedy of Species

[GryffonDurime]

Person A likes to roleplay while wearing a three-metre-wide purple hat. He uses the name "SSJGOKUSSJJJJSJ123" and persists in asking other characters who they think will win American Idol. Is this bad roleplaying?

Only if their community as a whole is opposed to Rping in that fashion.

No, that's just a matter of general gaming experience. I know what breaks up believability and irritates other people, because these things are common to all types of roleplaying. Wearing a hat or playing on Thursday doesn't change basic human psychology.

Belivability? In a world filled with go-karts, hockey, archaic knights, fish-based incarnations of ancient roman society, battle potatoes and where an ancient fuedal warlord system decides who wins a war by an Out-Of-Character trial by events masters?

Yeah, being a foreigner from a foreign place that seems unique REALLY kills believability there.

Where? You seem to be giving me a lot of imaginary assumptions. I've merely been talking about good roleplaying protocols, I haven't asserted that people tend to follow them.

No, but you've asserted that they SHOULD follow them. You're being horribly imperical about enforcing YOUR standards on a scenario THEY DONT APPLY TO.